Because every incremental employee costs the company more. It's like sorting an array. Big companies rarely hit it rich with small people working away on pet pr

Because every incremental employee costs the company more. It's like sorting an array. Big companies rarely hit it rich with small people working away on pet projects. The organization slows them down through a number of different ways and they cost the organization far more than their startup counterparts. Occasionally a project will be successful, but usually when that starts (like with Xbox) the rest of the organizations stakeholders will find a way of fucking it up. It's better to focus resources on things that little startups can't do (like self driving cars) and buy up fast expanding companies, like Google did with Youtube or Facebook did with Instagram.